Bridget Thorne helped set up voting equipment prior to the November election. Thorne told the Board of Commissioners that she contacted local officials to see how she could work as a poll tech, but they redirected her to a temporary employment agency, Happy Faces. Abrams owns 16 percent of Happy Faces. Thorne explained that when the Secretary of State (SoS) offered staffing substitutes for warehouse workers who had been quarantined because of [[covid]], “Fulton County declined their offer and brought in unqualified, untrained, hundred percent minority Happy Face employees.”<ref>https://uncoverdc.com/2021/06/17/fulton-county-early-election-hiring-implicates-stacey-abrams/</ref> Thorne quoted a 2014 ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (AJC) article regarding a company Abrams founded called NOWaccount, a company that “secures government contracts.” Stacey Abrams, according to Thorne: | Bridget Thorne helped set up voting equipment prior to the November election. Thorne told the Board of Commissioners that she contacted local officials to see how she could work as a poll tech, but they redirected her to a temporary employment agency, Happy Faces. Abrams owns 16 percent of Happy Faces. Thorne explained that when the Secretary of State (SoS) offered staffing substitutes for warehouse workers who had been quarantined because of [[covid]], “Fulton County declined their offer and brought in unqualified, untrained, hundred percent minority Happy Face employees.”<ref>https://uncoverdc.com/2021/06/17/fulton-county-early-election-hiring-implicates-stacey-abrams/</ref> Thorne quoted a 2014 ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (AJC) article regarding a company Abrams founded called NOWaccount, a company that “secures government contracts.” Stacey Abrams, according to Thorne: |